Sunday, April 24, 2016

The theory that
president Chávez was assassinated by his enemies is receiving renewed attention
in recent days. Last week Venezuela’s vice-president Aristóbulo Istúriz said that “Chávez had
become a target that had to be eliminated.” Istúriz admitted he could not prove
that Chávez had been assassinated, but that he has a “strong moral conviction”
that he was.

Eva Golinger, author
of The Chávez Code, shares that
conviction. In an interview published by Counterpunch,
reposted by Telesur
and by RT
in Spanish, Golinger claims that Chávez was the target of several
assassinations attempts, including a little known radioactive event at a New
York university during the president’s visit in 2006. “While these accounts may
sound like fiction, they are amply documented and very real,” sais Golinger.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

President Maduro has
again claimed that the Venezuelan opposition, “with the help of the United
States,” is planning to assassinate him. The plan, according to the president, is
part of a wide plot by the United States government in order to stage a “desperate
intervention” in Venezuela.

Maduro said yesterday
that he will reveal evidence of the plan “in the next hours.”

“We will show
evidence of paramilitary camps we have discovered in the State of Miranda,” he
said.

According to the news
portal Efecto
Cocuyo, Maduro, since December 2013, has claimed 24 times that the
opposition if planning to assassinate him or to stage a coup against his government.